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Ask Harriet Gets Bad Review

Contributed by Elizabeth Parker

Transactivist Jessica Xavier, a consultant for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation 's Washington, D.C. Media Resource Center, has less than a ringing endorsment for this "Tootsie" throwback: "Unlike Jack Lemmon's sweet surrender to the notion of getting married to a male millionaire while posing as a woman in the classic Some Like It Hot, same-sex encounters are continuously portrayed on Ask Harriet? as a dire threat to Jack and his all-American red-blooded heterosexuality. Thus the show goes far beyond just presuming a heterosexist status quo. It views same-sex attraction as the ultimate horror, to be escaped at any comedic cost." Others point out that Jack's discomfort with receiving the treatment he habitually dishes out is some small comfort for feminists.

Most Popular Cosmetic Surgeries

Contributed by Hebe Dotson

The ten most popular cosmetic surgery procedures in the USA for 1996 (source: American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery). More than three million procedures were performed, about 79 percent on women. The eighth most popular procedure was breast augmentation, performed on 76,407 women and 220 men at an average physician's fee of $2,895. (This was actually the least popular among men of the top ten; number 9 was face lifts -- 42,269 women and 6,674 men.)

--Via the Washington Post

British Cross-Dressing Comic Lobbies for Europe

Contributed by Elizabeth Parker

Comic Eddie Izzard is described by the "London Times" as "Britain's most celebrated transvestite," but this week he appeared on BBC 1's honored public affairs roundtable "Question Time." Although politics has not generally been the subject of Izzard's humor, he says that, "I've always been political. It's nothing new, but I'm stamping on about Europe because the British can be so small-minded." He's an enthusiastic supporter of the European single currency , which Britain doesn't seem likely to adopt soon, and about which even Germany and France seem to have increasing reservations.

Gender-Switching Bugs

Contributed by Sharon Marie O'Shea Pollution and human waste appear to be causing the majority of male roach, one of Britain's most common freshwater fish, to undergo sex changes. A study by Brunel University revealed that 100 percent of the male roach examined in two rivers, the Nene and Aire, showed signs of feminization. In the worst case, large parts of the fish's sperm-producing testes had turned into egg-making ovary tissue. This is the first time that feminization of male fish has been attributed to factory discharges. Earlier studies have linked fish sex changes to human and synthetic estrogen released into waterways through sewage.

--Via the Asbury Park (NJ) Press



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